Emulating the race winning ways of their AMR powered European cousins this weekend, the Japanese based D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing team went one better than the Comtoyou Racing team at their opening round of their national Super GT Series.
Beating the #7 Comtoyou Racing’s qualifying position by one to secure a season opening pole position within the GT300 class at today’s Okayama opener, the #777 D’Station Racing pairing of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg went on to run a near lights to flag class win at the end of the 300km race.
With weather conditions staying fine over the race weekend, the #777 backed up a good pre-season build up started the officially timed sessions only eighth fastest in Free Practice before going onto shave another 2.4 seconds off that lap time to secure pole position from the #2 Bridgestone tyre shod Toyota.
In a surprisingly clean race, an early stop for fuel for the #777 still saw them come through to the midway stop and driver change in the class lead before Fagg rounded off an otherwise faultless team performance to win the class by over seven seconds.
The next round will be from the teams ‘home’ circuit of Fuji Speedway in just over two weeks’ time.
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